There's an interesting Channel 4 news film currently in which a reporter investigates why the 'No' side (for retaining the 8th Amendment and keeping abortion illegal) are so secretive about their foreign funding. Probably no point in linking it here, where people outside Europe won't be able to see it.

Thing is, if the 8th Amendment is retained, we are voting to retain the Ireland in which the Catholic Church sold babies to foreign couples for adoption; incarcerated pregnant girls and their babies - many girls into womanhood and old age (in at least one of these the bodies of the many, many babies who died were stuffed into the sewers); ran reformatories for boys and girls using systems of unspeakable cruelty and depriving their prisoners of all education; its members raped children and then were protected by senior clerics all the way up to the Vatican; ran schools where children were indoctrinated - and forced parents to baptise their children as Catholics if they wanted the children educated.

If we vote to get rid of this amendment, so that girls and women can (largely) make their own decisions about whether to remain pregnant or not, we vote for a non-sectarian Ireland. We vote to throw off the cruel reign of the Catholic Church, which has done such harm in Ireland.

Voting cards arrive today…